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Laws  of  Illinois 

FOR  THE 


PROTECTION  OF 
LABOR 


1915 


First  Edition  Revised  to  July  1,  1915 


Compiled  and  Issued  by 
Illinois  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor 

LUKE  D.  McCOY,  Secretary 

Springfield 


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NOTICE. 

The  following  is  intended  to  assist  employ¬ 
ers  and  employees  to  a  ready  understanding 
of  the  laws  of  Illinois  for  the  protection 
of  labor  and  is  intended  as  a  ready  refer¬ 
ence.  For  the  complete  law  consult  the 
Session  laws  of  Illinois  and  Hurd’s  Revised 
Statutes  by  the  references  herein  given. 

Copies  of  this  pamphlet  can  be  obtained 
by  applying  to  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statis¬ 
tics,  Springfield,  Illinois. 


ATTENTION 

EMPLOYERS  AND  EMPLOYEES. 

ILLINOIS  FREE  EMPLOYMENT 
OFFICES. 

GENERAL  ADVISORY  BOARD. 

John  Williams,  Chairman. 

A.  H.  R.  Atwood,  Secretary. 

Oscar  Mayer. 

Mrs.  Raymond  Robins. 

John  H.  Walker. 

EMPLOYMENT  OFFICES. 

Chicago1 — 524-526-528  S.  Dearborn  Street. 
Peoria — 512-514  S.  Adams  Street. 

East  St.  Louis — Corner  Main  Street  and 
Division  Avenue. 

Springfield — 208-210  N.  Fourth  Street. 

Rock  Island-Moline — 1921  Second  Avenue, 
Rock  Island. 

Rockford — 107  Kishwaukee  Street. 


These  offices  are  supported  by  the  tax¬ 
payers,  and  services  are  free  to  employers 
and  employees.  Courteous  treatment  and 
prompt  attention  will  be  extended  to  all 
patrons  of  the  offices. 

We  make  a  special  effort  to  furnish  effi¬ 
cient  and  reliable  employees,  for  any  class 
of  work  desired  either  skilled  or  unskilled. 

Employers  should  make  use  of  these  of¬ 
fices  the  same  as  any  other  public  institution. 

We  also  request  that  all  persons  out  of 
employment  register  with  the  Free  Employ¬ 
ment  offices. 


BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF  LABOR. 

James  T.  Patterson,  President,  Chicago. 
Charles  Vallo,  Murphysboro. 

James  P.  Kellett,  Gillespie. 

Frank  B.  Mott,  Galesburg. 

J.  D.  Peters,  Herrin. 

Luke  D.  McCoy,  Secretary,  Springfield. 

STATE  BOARD  OF  ARBITRATION. 

Lewis  McGovern,  Freeport. 

Leo  J.  Winicke,  Chicago. 

H.  M.  Powell,  Peoria. 

Charles  E.  Preble,  Secretary,  3619  Maple 
Square  Ave.,  Chicago. 

BARBERS’  BOARD  OF  EXAMINERS. 

James  Ahern,  President,  Chicago. 

Thomas  Casey,  Treasurer ,  Rock  Island. 
Thomas  J.  Notter,  Secretary,  Chicago. 

HORSESHOERS’  EXAMINING  BOARD. 

James  Little,  Chicago. 

J.  T.  Kane,  Chicago. 

J.  A.  Allen,  Pittsfield. 

ILLINOIS  FACTORY  INSPECTION 
DEPARTMENT. 

Oscar  F.  Nelson,  Chief  Factory  Inspector, 
Transportation  Building,  Chicago. 

INDUSTRIAL  BOARD. 
(Workmen’s  Compensation  Law.) 

J.  B.  Vaughn,  Carlinville. 

Robert  Eadie,  Springfield. 

Peter  Angsten,  Chicago. 

W.  V.  Conley,  Secretary,  City  Hall  Square 
Bldg.,  Chicago. 


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STATE  MINING  BOARD. 

John  Bohlander,  President,  Pekin. 

James  Forester,  Member,  Duquoin. 

Thomas  L.  Jones,  Member,  Ladd. 

James  Shaw,  Secretary,  Virden. 

J.  B.  McKiernan,  H.  E.,  Peoria. 

J.  L.  Morris,  Chief  Clerk,  Springfield. 

STATE  MINE  INSPECTORS. 

Name.  District.  Residence. 

Ben  D.  Roberts.  . .  .First . - . .  .Streator. 

Thomas  H.  Devlin. Second . Assumption 

George  L.  Morgan.  Third . Pekin. 

David  Z.  Thrush.  .Fourth . Farmington. 

J.  W.  Starks . Fifth.- . Georgetown. 

John  Garrity . Sixth. . . . Riverton. 

Archibald  Frew.  .  .Seventh . Gillespie. 

John  Kaney . ..Eighth . Centralia. 

William  Hartman  .Ninth . Belleville. 

John  McClintock  .  Tenth . Murphysboro. 

John  E.  Jones . Eleventh . Benton. 

James  S.  Reid . Twelfth . Carterville.  * 

MINERS’  EXAMINING  BOARD. 

Edward  Maher,  President,  Lincoln. 

John  Knies,  Secretary,  Breese. 

C.  C.  Humphreys,  Herrin. 

Offices  in  Capitol  Building,  Springfield. 

MINING  INVESTIGATION  COMMISSION. 

B.  L.  Russell,  Princeton. 

Jacob  G.  Grossberg,  Chicago. 

Dr.  H.  H.  Stoek,  Urbana. 

Thomas  Jeremiah,  Willisville. 

W.  D.  Obcamp,  Lincoln. 

Rice  Miller,  Hillsboro. 

Willtam  Hall,  Springfield. 

R.  J.  Wilson,  Marissa. 

John  Tuttle,  Harrisburg. 


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MINE  RESCUE  STATION  COMMISSION. 

Fernand  Bearnard,  Westville. 

John  Slattery,  Toluca. 

Thomas  Jeremiah,  Willisville. 

George  H.  Deemy,  Peoria. 

Thomas  H.  Devlin,  Chairman,  Assumption. 
Harry  E.  Stoek,  Secretary,  Urbana. 

Oscar  Cartlidge,  Manager ,  Springfield. 
Alexander  Jones,  Station  Superintendent, 
LaSalle. 

Thomas  English,  Station  Superintendent, 
Springfield. 

CHIEF  INSPECTOR  OF  PRIVATE  EM¬ 
PLOYMENT  AGENCIES. 

Richard  J.  Knight,  335-608  S.  Dearborn  st., 
Chicago. 

PUBLIC  UTILITIES  COMMISSION. 

William  L.  O’Connell,  Chairman,  Chicago. 
Richard  Yates,  Springfield. 

Frank  H.  Funk,  Bloomington. 

Walter  Shaw,  Chicago. 

Owen  P.  Thompson,  Jacksonville. 

Everett  Jennings,  Counsel,  Chicago. 

Robert  Prather,  Secretary,  Springfield. 
Joseph  H.  Prior,  Chief  Engineer,  Springfield. 

STATE  BOARD  OF  EXAMINERS  OF 
STRUCTURAL  ENGINEERS. 

John  W.  Musham,  Chicago. 

E.  N.  Layfield,  Chicago'. 

James  T.  Hanley,  Chicago. 

C.  C.  Stowell,  Rockford. 

Frederick  H.  Newell,  Urbana. 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 

Accidents  to  be  reported  to  Bureau  of  Labor 

Statistics  .  1 

Aliens  prohibited  from  acting  as  peace  officers .  1 

Apprentices  .  2 

Arbitration,  State  Board  of .  2 

Barbers — qualifications  .  3 

Basements,  prohibits  certain  employments  therein...  4 
Blowers,  use  of  upon  metal  polishing  machinery....  4 
Buildings,  bridges,  viaducts  and  other  structures, 

construction  of .  5 

Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics .  5 

Butterine  and  ice  cream — manufacture  of .  5 

Chauffeurs— protection  from  dust,  wind,  etc .  6 

Child  Labor .  6 

Cities  and  Villages — employment  on  public  works.  .  .  6 

Conspiracy — to  do  an  illegal  act — boycott — blacklist  6 
Convict  Labor — regulating  the  employment  of  convicts  7 
Convict  Labor — road  building  material  and  machinery  7 

Convict  Labor  on  public  roads . 7 

Eight  Hour  Law .  7 

Employments  creating  poisonous  fumes  or  dust  in 

harmful  quantities .  7 

Employment  of  women .  8 

Engineers,  stationary .  9 

Engineering  Department  of.  Mining  in  University  of 

Illinois  . 9 

Explosives  in  coal  mines .  9 

Factory  Inspection  Department .  9 

Factories,  mercantile  establishments,  mills  and  work¬ 
shops,  health,  safety  and  comfort  of  employees....  10 

Factories  and  workshops — inspection .  11 

Females  in  factories — hours  of  emplojonent .  12 

Fire  department — hours  of  employees .  12 

Fire  escapes — supervision  of  county  and  municipal 

authorities  .  13 

Fire  fighting  equipment  in  coal  mines .  13 

Fire  fighting  and  rescue  stations  in  coal  fields .  14 

Free  Employment  offices  and  agencies . 14 

Garnishment  . ,14 

Garnishment  oppressive — transferring  claims — exemp¬ 
tions  .  15 

Garnishment  transcript  to  other  counties .  15 

Garnishment  of  wages  earned  outside  of  State .  15 

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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS— Concluded. 

PAGH. 

Headlights  on  locomotive  engines .  16 

Horseshoers  .  16 

Horseshoers,  Board  of  Examiners .  16 

Industrial  Board,  Compensation  for  accidental  injuries 

or  death  (Workmen’s  Compensation  Law) .  16 

Injuries  .  19 

Legal  Holidays .  19 

Masonry,  public  buildings  and  works,  State  Inspector 

of  .  19 

Mason  Contractors  and  employing  masons  in  cities  of 

150,000  or  over — building  regulations .  20 

Mechanics’  Lien — remedial  act .  20 

Miners’  Examining  Board .  21 

Mining  Investigating  Commission .  21 

Mines  and  Mining .  21 

Miners  to  be  paid  for  all  coal  mined .  22 

Occupational  diseases .  22 

Plumbers — licensing  of .  23 

Powder  used  in  coal  mines . 23 

Private  Employment  Agencies .  23 

Railroads — inspection  of  safety  appliances .  24 

Railroads  to  provide  first  medical  aid .  24 

Railroads — safety  appliances .  24 

Shot  firers  in  coal  mines .  24 

Structural  Engineers,  State  Board  of  Examiners  of .  .  .  25 

Trade  marks,  labels  and  forms  of  advertising .  25 

Wages — assignment  for  benefit  of  creditors .  25 

Wages — attorney’s  fees  in  suits .  26 

Wages — employees  protected  in  claims .  26 

Wages— enforcement  of  payment .  26 

Wages — judgments  for,  to  include  services  of  horse  or 

team  .  27 

Wages  of  miners  and  laborers  at  coal  mines — lien  on 

all  property  .  27 

Wages,  payments  to  be  made  in  bankable  currency.  .  27 
Wages — personal  property  not  exempt  for  wages  of 

servants  .  27 

Wage  loan  corporations — incorporated .  28 

Wages  and  salaries  to  be  paid  semimonthly  by  cor¬ 
porations  for  pecuniary  profit .  28 

Washrooms  in  certain  employments .  28 


X 


LAWS  OF  ILLINOIS  FOR  THE 
PROTECTION  OF  LABOR. 


ACCIDENTS,  to  be  reported  to  the  bureau 
of  labor  statistics: 

Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  which 
employs  help,  shall  make  a  report'  to  the 
State  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  of  every 
injury  entailing  a  loss  of  thirty  or  more 
days’  time,  or  death  of  every  employee 
caused  by  accident  while  in  the  perform¬ 
ance  of  duty.  Such  report  to  give  name  of 
employer,  character  of  business  of  such  em¬ 
ployer,  where  located,  date  of  injury,  or 
death,  name  of  person  killed  or  injured, 
character  of  employment  or  service,  and 
cause  of  such  injury  or  death;  and  when 
injury  alone,  then  the  character  and  extent 
of  such  injury,  residence,  nativity  and  age 
of  the  person  injured  or  killed,  whether 
married  or  single,  and,  if  known,  how 
many  persons  are  dependent  upon  such 
employee. 

It  Is  the  duty  of  the  State  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics  to  enforce  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  and  to  publish  an  annual  report 
concerning  accident  reports. 

Penalty  of  $25.00  to  $200.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  73. 

ALIENS,  prohibited  from  acting  as  peace 
officers: 

It  is  unlawful  for  sheriff,  or  authorities 
of  any  city,  town  or  village,  to  authorize, 
empower,  employ,  or  permit  any  person  to 
act  as  deputy  sheriff,  special  constable  or 


special  policeman  for  the  purpose  of  pre¬ 
serving  the  peace,  who  is  not  a  citizen  of 
the  United  States  and  has  not  been  an 
actual  resident  of  the  county  one  year. 

Penaly  $100.00  to  $500.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  126,  sec.  27. 

APPRENTICES: 

Children  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
may  be  bound  as  apprentices,  clerks  or  ser¬ 
vants,  until  they  arrive  at  the  age  of  six¬ 
teen,  with  or  without  their  consent. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  9,  sec.  1. 

ARBITRATION,  STATE  BOARD  OF: 

When  a  controversy  or  difference  not  in¬ 
volving  questions  which  may  be  subject 
of  an  action  at  law  or  bill  in  equity,  exists 
between  an  employer,  whether  an  individ¬ 
ual,  copartnership  or  corporation,  employ¬ 
ing  not  less  than  twenty-five  persons,  and 
his  employees  in  this  State,  the  board  shall, 
upon  application  as  provided,  and  as  soon 
as  practicable  thereafter,  visit  the  locality 
of  the  dispute  and  make  a  careful  inquiry 
into  the  cause  thereof,  hear  all  persons 
interested  therein  who.  may  come  before 
them;  advise  the  respective  parties  what,  if 
anything,  ought  to  be  done  or  submitted 
tio  by  both  to  adjust  said  dispute,  and  make 
a  written  decision  thereof. 

Application  shall  be  signed  by  employer 
or  a  majority  of  his  employees  in  the  depart¬ 
ment  of  business  in  which  the  controversy 
or  difference  exists,  or  by  both  parties,  and 
shall  contain  a  concise  statement  of  the 
grievances  complained  of,  and  a  promise  to 
continue  on  in  business  or  at  work  without 
any  lockout  or  strike  until  the  decision 
of  said  board,  if  it  shall  be  made  within 


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three  weeks  of  the  date  of  filing  said  appli¬ 
cation. 

Decision  shall  be  binding  upon  parties 
who  join  in  application  for  six  months, 
or  until  either  party  has  given  the  other 
notice  in  writing  of  their  intention  not 
to  be  bound  by  the  same  after  the  expira¬ 
tion  of  sixty  days. 

When  two  or  more  employers  engaged 
in  the  same  general  line  of  business,  employ¬ 
ing  in  the  aggregate  not  less  than  twenty- 
five  persons,  and  having  a  common  differ¬ 
ence  with  their  employees,  the  employers 
or  employees  may  cooperate  together,  and 
make  application  for  arbitration. 

When  strike  or  lockout  is  threatened,  it 
is  duty  of  State  Board  to  communicate  with 
employer  or  employees,  and  endeavor  to 
effect  an  amicable  settlement. 

It  is  the  duty  of  the  mayor  of  every  city, 
and  president  of  every  incorporated  town 
or  village,  when  a  strike  or  lockout  is 
threatened  or  has  actually  occurred  within 
or  near  such  city,  town  or  village,  to  com¬ 
municate  the  fact  to  the  State  Board. 

When  there  is  a  strike  or  lockout  the 
State  Board,  may  proceed  on  its  own  motion 
to  investigate  the  facts  and  make  public 
its  findings. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  10,  sec.  19. 

BARBERS,  qualifications: 

Creates  a  Board  of  Barbers  examiners  and 
requires  that  every  person  following  the 
occupation  of  barber,  must  obtain  a  certifi¬ 
cate  of  registration  as  provided  in  the  Act. 
Examination  fee  is  $3.00  and  annual  renewal 
thereafter  $1.00. 


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Penalty  $10.00  to  $100.00  or  imprisonment 
of  10  days  to  90  days. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  16b,  sec.  1. 

BASEMENTS,  prohibits  certain  employ¬ 
ments  therein: 

Basements  of  rooms  lying  wholly  or 
partly  beneath  the  surface  of  the  ground 
are  not  to  be  used  for  certain  employments. 
Penalty  $25.00  to  $200.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  169. 

BLOWERS,  Use  of  upon  metal  polishing 
machinery: 

All  persons,  companies  or  corporations 
operating  any  factory  or  workshop  where 
emery  wheels  or  emery  belts  of  any  des¬ 
cription  are  used,  either  solid  emery 
leather,  leather  covered,  felt,  canvas,  linen, 
paper,  cotton  or  wheels  or  belts  rolled  or 
coated  with  emery  or  corundum,  or  cotton 
wheels,  used  as  buffs,  shall  provide  the 
same  with  blowers  or  similar  apparatus, 
which  shall  be  placed  over,  beside  or  under 
such  wheels  or  belts  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
protect  the  person  or  persons  using  the 
same  from  the  particles  of  the  dust  pro¬ 
duced  and  caused  thereby,  and  to  carry 
away  the  dust  arising  from  or  thrown  off 
by  such  wheels  or  belts,  while  in  operation, 
directly  to  the  outside  of  the  building  or  to 
some  receptacle  placed  so  as  to  receive  and 
confine  such  dust.  Grinding  machines  upon 
which  water  is  used  are  exempt.  Shops 
in  which  not  more  than  one  man  is  em¬ 
ployed  are  exempt. 

Every  wheel  shall  be  fitted  with  sheet  or 
cast  iron  hood  or  hopper.  All  wheels  to  be 
supplied  with  suction  pipes. 


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Fans  or  blowers  to  be  connected  with 
pipes. 

Penalty  $25.00  to  $100.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  43. 

BUILDINGS,  bridges,  viaducts  and  other 
structures,  construction  of: 

Scaffolds,  cranes,  ladders,  etc.,  used  in 
construction  of  buildings,  bridges,  viaducts 
and  all  other  structures  must  be  placed  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  afford  proper  protec¬ 
tion  to  persons  employed  thereon.  Duty  of 
owner  to  post  placard,  same  to  be  approved 
by  State  Factory  Inspector  or  building  in¬ 
spector,  who  shall  have  free  access  for  ex¬ 
amining  same.  Elevator  shafts  to  be  en¬ 
closed.  Provides  that  local  building  com¬ 
missioner  or  State  Factory  Inspector  en¬ 
force  law. 

Penalty  $25.00  to  $500.00  or  three  months 
to  two  years  imprisonment  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  79. 

BUREAU  OF  LABOR  STATISTICS: 

Provides  for  a  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
Labor,  who  shall  cause  to  be  published  a 
biennial  report  relating  to  all  departments 
of  labor.  Employers  to  afford  commission¬ 
ers  every  facility  for  procuring  statistics. 

Penalty  of  $100.00  for  refusal  to  furnish 
required  information. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  17b,  sec.  1. 

BUTTERINE  and  Ice  Cream,  manufacture 

of: 

Buildings  to  be  kept  in  sanitary  condition. 
State  Factory  Inspector  shall  inspect  and 
issue  certificate  when  conducted  in  proper 
manner,  it  is  also  his  duty  to  enforce  law. 

Penalty  $50.00  to  $500.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  68. 


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CHAUFFEURS,  protection  from  dust,  wind, 
etc. 

All  automobiles  used  for  delivery  pur¬ 
poses,  to  be  provided  with  a  shield  and  hood. 

Penalty  $10.00  to  $50.00  per  day. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  175. 

CHILD  LABOR: 

No  child  under  14  years  to  be  employed 
except  during  vacation  period.  Register  to 
be  kept  by  employer  of  every  child  between 
14  and  16  years  of  age,  also  a  school  certifi¬ 
cate  must  be  kept  on  file.  List  of  children 
employed  to  be  posted  in  workrooms.  Chil¬ 
dren  under  16  years  not  to  be  permitted  to 
work  more  than  48  hours  per  week  or  at 
certain  hazardous  occupations.  State  Fac¬ 
tory  Inspector  to  enforce  law. 

Provides  penalties  of  fines  of  various 
amounts  for  violations. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  20. 

CITIES  AND  VILLAGES,  employment  on 
public  works: 

The  commissioner  of  public  work  or 
proper  officers,  shall  superintend  the  con¬ 
struction  on  certain  public  work,  and  em¬ 
ploy  for  the  performance  of  all  manual 
labor  exclusively,  laborers  and  artesians 
whom  the  city  or  village  shall  pay  by  the 
day  or  hour,  to  be  certified  by  the  Civil 
Service  Commission  of  such  city  or  village. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.  chap.  24,  sec.  116a. 

CONSPIRACY,  to  do  an  allegal  act,  boycott, 
blacklist: 

It  is  illegal  for  two  or  more  persons  or 
officers  or  executive  committee  of  any  so¬ 
ciety  or  organization  or  corporation  to  con- 


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spire  together  for  the  purpose  of  establish¬ 
ing  of  boycott  or  black  list. 

Penalty  not  to  exceed  five  years  of  im¬ 
prisonment  or  fine  of  $2,000.00  or  both. 
Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  38,  sec.  46. 

CONVICT  LABOR,  regulating  the  employ¬ 
ment  of  convicts: 

Creates  “The  Board  of  Prison  Industries 
of  Illinois”  which  administers  the  provis¬ 
ions  of  the  act.  The  board  to  dispose  of 
all  products  of  convicts;  same  shall  not 
be  sold  upon  the  open  market,  or  in  com¬ 
petition  with  the  products  of  free  labor, 
except  in  certain  cases. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  108,  sec.  75. 

CONVICT  LABOR,  road  building  material 
and  machinery: 

Provides  that  convicts  be  employed  in  the 
manufacture  of  road  material  and  machin¬ 
ery. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  109,  sec.  103. 
CONVICT  LABOR  on  Public  Roads: 

Provides  that  convicts  serving  not  more 
than  five  years  or  who  have  not  more  than 
five  years  to  serve  to  complete  their 
sentences  may  be  employed  on  the  public 
roads  or  in  preparing  road  materials. 

1915  Session  Laws,  p.  555. 

EIGHT  HOUR  LAW. 

Provides  that  eight  hours  constitute  a 
legal  day’s  work,  where  there  is  no  agree¬ 
ment  to  the  contrary. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  1. 

EMPLOYMENTS,  creating  poisonous  fumes 
or  dust  in  harmful  quantities: 

Every  employer  of  labor,  engaged  in  any 
work  or  process  which  may  produce  or  gen- 


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erate  poisonous  or  noxious  fumes  or  dusts 
in  harmful  quantities,  such  as  metal  polish¬ 
ing,  grinding,  plating  and  dipping  of  metals 
in  acid  solutions  or  dips,  which  processes 
and  employments  are  hereby  declared  to  be 
especially  dangerous  to  the  health  of  the 
employees  engaged  in  said  process,  or  any 
like  employments  creating  poisonous  or  nox¬ 
ious  fumes  or  dust,  shall,  for  the  protection 
of  the  employees,  conduct  such  operations 
or  employments  in  rooms  lying  wholly 
above  the  surface  of  the  ground.  It  is  the 
duty  of  the  Chief  State  Factory  Inspector, 
the  Assistant  State  Factory  Inspector,  and 
the  deputy  factory  inspectors  to  enforce  the 
law.  Penalty  $25.00  to  $200.00  first  offense 
— $100.00  to  $500.00  for  second  or  subse¬ 
quent  offenses  and  in  each  case  shall  stand 
committed  until  such  fine  and  costs  are  paid. 

For  any  injury  to  the  health  of  any  em¬ 
ployee  caused  by  any  wilful  violation  of  this 
act  a  right  of  action  shall  accrue  to  the 
party  whose  health  has  been  so  injured  for 
any  direct  damages  sustained  thereby. 

In  case  of  the  loss  of  life  by  reason  of 
such  wilful  violation  a  right  of  action  shall 
accrue  to  the  widow,  his  lineal  heirs  or 
adopted  children,  or  to  any  other  person 
or  persons  dependent  for  support  upon  such 
deceased  person  for  recovery  of  damages 
for  the  injury  sustained  by  reason  of  such 
loss  of  life,  not  to  exceed  $25,000.00.  Such 
action  shall  be  commenced  within  two  years. 

1915  Session  laws,  page  431. 

EMPLOYMENT  OF  WOMEN: 

Provides  that  no  person  be  debarred  from 
any  employment  except  military,  on  account 
of  sex. 

Hurd’s  Rev  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  3. 

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ENGINEERS,  Stationary: 

Provides  for  the  licensing  of  stationary 
engineers  by  the  authorities  of  cities,  towns 
or  villages  and  for  the  examination  of  all 
such  engineers  as  to  their  compentency  and 
qualifications. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  24,  sec.  439. 

ENGINEERING  DEPARTMENT  IN  MIN¬ 
ING  IN  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS: 

Authorizes  and  directs  the  trustees  of  the 
University  of  Illinois  to  establish  in  the 
College  of  Engineering,  a  department  of 
mining  engineering. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  144,  sec.  53. 

EXPLOSIVES  IN  COAL  MINES: 

Provides  that  all  explosives  used  in  blast¬ 
ing  coal  shall  conform  to  certain  specifica¬ 
tions  adopted  by  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Mines. 
State  and  county  mine  inspectors  and  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  coal  operators  and  coal  min¬ 
ers  are  given  authority  to  sample  explo¬ 
sives,  and  may  have  same  tested  by  send¬ 
ing  the  same  to  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Mines.  Each  shipping  case  of  explosives 
shall  be  marked.  Penalty  of  $100.00  or  im¬ 
prisonment  in  county  jail  for  90  days  or 
both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  93,  sec.  84. 

FACTORY  INSPECTION  DEPARTMENT: 

Creates  the  Illinois  Department  of  Fac¬ 
tory  Inspection  and  provides  for  the  appoint¬ 
ment  of  a  Chief  State  Factory  Inspector, 
whose  duty  it  is  to  secure  the  enforcement 
of  all  laws  relating  to  the  inspection  of 
factories  and  other  establishments. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  76. 


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FACTORIES,  MERCANTILE  ESTABLISH¬ 
MENTS,  MILLS  AND  Vv  ORKSHOPS, 
HEALTH,  SAFETY  AND  COMFORT 
OF  EMPLOYEES: 

Provides  for  the  location  and  guarding  of 
power-driven  machinery,  electrical  appli¬ 
ances,  receptacles  containing  molten  metal 
etc.  Safeguards  not  to  be  removed  except 
for  repairs,  and  effective  means  shall  be 
provided  to  immediately  disconnect  power, 
in  case  of  accident.  Elevator  shafts  and 
other  holes  to  be  enclosed  and  elevator  cabs 
to  be  provided  with  safety  devices.  Owner 
to  repair  machinery  if  same  is  in  an  unsafe 
condition,  on  notice  from  Chief  Factory 
Inspector.  Food  must  not  be  taken  in 
room  where  white  lead,  arsenic  or  other 
poisonous  substances  are  present,  and  no¬ 
tices  to  that  effect  must  be  posted.  Seats 
shall  be  provided  for  females,  and  the  use 
of  same  permitted.  Specifies  the  cubic  feet 
of  air  space  to  be  provided  for  each  person 
under  certain  conditions,  and  that  noxious 
fumes  and  gases  shall  be  removed,  Refuse 
and  waste  to  be  removed  at  least  once  a 
day.  Fire  escapes  to  be  provided,  and  there 
shall  be  more  than  one  means  of  egress 
which  shall  be  plainly  marked  as  such; 
doors  to  entrances  and  exits  to  open  out¬ 
ward,  and  handrails  to  be  provided  on  stair¬ 
ways.  At  least  one  toilet  shall  be  provided 
for  every  30  males  and  one  for  every  25 
females,  toilets  for  males  and  females  to 
be  separate,  same  to  be  properly  lighted  and 
disinfected.  Adequate  washing  facilities  to 
be  provided  for  employees.  It  is  the  duty 
of  employers  under  this  law  to  send  to  the 
Chief  State  Factory  Inspector  in  writing, 
an  immediate  report  of  all  fatal  accidents, 


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and  to  report  between  the  15th  and  25th  of 
every  month,  all  accidents  occurring  during 
the  previous  month,  which  entailed  a  loss  to 
injured  persons  of  15  consecutive  days’  time 
or  more.  No  statement  contained  in  any 
such  report  shall  be  admissible  in  evidence 
in  any  action  arising  out  of  the  death  or 
accident  reported.  It  is  the  duty  of  the 
Chief  State  Factory  Inspector  and  his  as¬ 
sistants  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  and  to  prosecute  all  violations.  Penalty 
of  $10.00  to  $200.00. 

Copies  of  this  act  shall  be  supplied  by  the 
Chief  State  Factory  Inspector  on  applica¬ 
tion. 

It  is  the  duty  of  the  Chief  State  Factory 
Inspector  to  have  printed  notices  prepared 
for  the  purpose  of  disseminating  a  general 
knowledge  of  the  provisions  of  the  act 
among  employees,  copies  to  be  supplied  to 
employers  on  application  and  the  same  must 
be  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  every 
office  or  workroom. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  89. 

FACTORIES  AND  WORKSHOPS,  inspec¬ 
tion: 

Prohibits  the  manufacture  of  clothing  and 
other  articles  in  any  room  in  any  dwelling 
used  for  eating  or  sleeping  purposes,  except 
by  the  immediate  members  of  the  family 
living  therein.  Such  workshops  to  be  kept 
in  a  clean  condition  and  each  article  made 
or  altered  shall  be  subject  to  inspection. 
Person  occupying  or  having  control  of  such 
workshop  required  to  notify  the  board  of 
health  of  its  location,  nature  of  work  and 
number  of  persons  employed.  Board  of 
health  or  State  Factory  Inspector  to  ex¬ 
amine  workshops  and  goods,  and  if  evidence 


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of  unhealthful  conditions  are  found,  either 
may  give  such  orders  as  the  public  health 
may  require.  Imported  articles  reported  to 
have  been  manufactured  under  unhealthful 
conditions  to  be  examined  and  same  may 
be  condemned  and  destroyed  by  board  of 
health.  Every  person  or  firm  is  required  to 
keep  a  list  of  workshops  in  his  or  its  em¬ 
ploy  subject  to  inspection  and  produce  same 
on  demand  by  board  of  health  or  State  in¬ 
spector. 

Penalty  $3.00  to  $100.00 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  21. 

FEMALES,  in  factories,  hours  of  employ¬ 
ment: 

Provides  that  no  female  shall  be  employed 
in  any  mechanical  or  mercantile  establish¬ 
ment,  factory,  hotel,  laundry  or  other  estab¬ 
lishment  mention  in  the  act  more  than 
ten  hours  during  any  one  day.  Employers 
shall  keep  time  record  showing  number  of 
hours  each  female  in  his  employ,  to  whom 
this  act  applies,  is  employed. 

State  Department  of  Factory  Inspection 
is  charged  with  the  enforcement  of  this  Act. 

Penalty  ‘of  $25.00  to  $100.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  121. 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT,  hours  of  employees: 

Provides  that  in  cities  and  villages  which 
shall  adopt  this  act  no  employee  of  the  fire 
department  shall  be  compelled  to  be  on  duty 
more  than  ten  consecutive  hours  during  the 
day  time,  nor  more  than  fourteen  consecu¬ 
tive  hours  during  the  night  time. 

This  act  may  be  adopted  by  5  per  cent  of 
the  legal  voters  petitioning  the  city  or 
village  clerks,  who  shall  submit  the  propo- 


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sition  to  voters  at  the  next  succeeding  regu¬ 
lar  election. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  24,  sec.  434U. 

FIRE  ESCAPES,  SUPERVISION  OF  COUN¬ 
TY  AND  MUNICIPAL  AUTHORITIES: 

Provides  for  fire  escapes  on  all  buildings 
four  or  more  stories  in  height,  excepting 
such  as  are  used  for  private  residences 
exclusively. 

Provides,  also  for  fire  escapes  on  all  build¬ 
ings,  more  than  two  stories  in  height,  used 
for  manufacturing  purposes,  or  for  hotels, 
dormitories,  schools,  seminaries,  hospitals 
or  asylums. 

Penalty  of  $25.00  to  $200.00  and  a  further 
fine  of  $50.00  for  each  additional  week  of 
neglect  to  comply  with  notice. 

Complaints  may  be  made  in  writing  to 
county  board  or  corporate  authorities,  who 
upon  failure  to  comply  with  law,  upon  such 
complaint  being  made,  shall  be  liable  to  fine 
of  $100.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  55a,  sec.  1. 

FIRE  FIGHTING  EQUIPMENT  IN  COAL 
MINES: 

All  persons,  firms,  corporations  or  associa¬ 
tions  maintaining  and  operating  coal  mines 
in  the  State,  shall  equip  their  mines  with 
pipe  and  hose  connections,  automatic  sprink¬ 
lers,  barrels,  pails  and  other  fire  extinguish¬ 
ers. 

Shafts  and  fire  escapes  must  be  fireproof 
construction.  Telephones  must  be  installed 
and  kept  in  working  order. 

Penalty  $50.00  to  $200.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  93,  sec.  61. 


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FIRE  FIGHTING  AND  RESCUE  STATIONS, 

in  coal  fields: 

There  are  maintained  at  public  expense 
three  mine  rescue  stations  to  serve  the 
northern,  central  and  southern  coal  fields 
of  the  State,  for  the  purpose  of  providing 
prompt  and  efficient  means  of  fighting  mine 
fires  and  saving  lives  and  property  in  the 
coal  mines  of  Illinois. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  93,  sec.  69. 

FREE  EMPLOYMENT  OFFICES  AND 
AGENCIES: 

Free  *  Employment  offices  are  created  as 
follows:  One  in  each  city  of  not  less  than 
50,000  population;  one  in  two  or  more  con¬ 
tiguous  cities  or  towns  having  an  aggre¬ 
gate  or  combined  population  of  not  less  than 
50,000  and  one  central  office  with  not  to  ex¬ 
ceed  three  branch  offices  in  each  city  con¬ 
taining  a  population  of  1,000,000  or  over, 
for  the  purpose  of  receiving  applications  of 
persons  seeking  employment  and  applica¬ 
tions  of  persons  seeking  to  employ  labor. 

Provides  for  advisory  boards  to  advise 
and  cooperate  with  the  secretary  of  the 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  and  to  devise 
ways  and  means  to  secure  work  for  the  un¬ 
employed.  No  fee  to  be  charged.  Reports 
to  be  made  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics  who  shall  make  an 
annual  report  on  the  work  of  the  various 
offices. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  53. 

GARNISHMENT: 

The  wages  for  services  of  a  wage  earner 
who  is  the  head  of  a  family  and  residing 
with  the  same,  to  the  amount  of  $15.00  per 
week  shall  be  exempt  from  garnishment. 


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All  above  the  sum  of  $15.00  per  week 
shall  be  liable  to  garnishment. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  62,  sec.  1. 

GARNISHMENT,  oppressive,  transferring 
claims,  exemptions: 

Prohibits  the  transferrng  of  any  claim  or 
debt  to  be  collected  by  proceedings  in  at¬ 
tachment  or  garnishment,  out  of  the  State 
of  Illinois,  when  the  persons  owing  for  the 
earnings  intended  to  be  reached  by  such 
proceedings,  are  all  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  courts  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  with 
intent  thereby  to  deprive  any  bona  fide  resi¬ 
dent  of  the  State  of  Illinois  of  his  rights 
under  the  statutes  of  Illinois  on  the  sub¬ 
ject  of  the  exemption  of  property  from  levy 
and  sale  on  execution  or  in  attachment  or 
garnishment. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  62,  sec.  32. 

GARNISHMENT,  transcript  to  other  coun¬ 
ties: 

Whenever  a  judgment  shall  be  rendered 
by  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  any  county 
of  this  State  and  not  appealed  from,  a 
transcript  may  be  filed  with  any  other 
justice  of  the  peace  in  the  State. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  62,  sec.  29. 

GARNISHMENT  of  wages  earned  outside  of 
State: 

Wages  earned  out  of  the  State,  are  exempt 
from  attachment  or  garnishment  where  the 
cause  of  action  arose  out  of  this  State, 
unless  the  defendant  in  the  attachment  or 
garnishment  is  personally  served  with  pro¬ 
cess. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  62,  sec.  34a. 


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HEADLIGHTS  ON  LOCOMOTIVE  EN¬ 
GINES: 

All  common  carriers  by  railroad  operat¬ 
ing  or  doing  business  in  this  State,  are 
required  to  equip  and  maintain  in  use  on 
all  locomotive  engines  used  by  them,  ,a 
headlight  lof  sufficient  candlepower,  to 
throw  a  light  powerful  enough  to  enable 
the  operator  of  a  passenger  engine  to  dis¬ 
cern  an  object  upon  the  track  at  a  distance 
of  800  feet  from  the  headlight;  450  feet  on 
freight  engines  and  250  feet  on  switch  en¬ 
gines. 

Penalty  $100.00  to  $500.00  for  each  of¬ 
fense. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  114,  sec.  307. 

HORSESHOERS: 

Provides  for  the  protection  of  horseshoers 
by  giving  them  a  lien  on  every  animal  shod 
by  them  until  the  charge  for  such  service 
shall  have  been  paid. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  66,  sec.  1. 

HORSESHOERS,  BOARD  OF  EXAMINERS: 

Any  person  who  follows  the  occupation  of 
horseshoer  must  have  a  certificate.  A 
board  of  examiners  is  created  to  enforce 
the  law  and  hold  examinations  for  appli¬ 
cants.  Board  must  make  report  to  Gover¬ 
nor  the  first  of  July  each  year.  Penalty 
$25.00  to  $200.00  or  imprisonment  in  county 
jail  10  to  30  days  or  both  for  any  person 
doing  business  without  a  license. 

Session  laws  of  1915,  page  428. 

INDUSTRIAL  BOARD,  compensation  for  ac¬ 
cidental  injuries  or  death: 

Creates  Industrial  Board,  the  duty  of 
which  is  to  see  that  the  law  is  properly 
enforced. 


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Any  employer  may  elect  to  provide  and 
pay  compensation  for  accidental  injuries  or 
death  of  employees.  Every  employer  whose 
business  comes  under  act  is  bound  by  its 
provisions  unless  notice  to  the  contrary  is 
filed  with  Industrial  Board  and  notices 
posted  in  plant. 

Employers  rejecting  act  liable  in  action 
for  damages;  certain  defenses  abrogated. 

Compensation  to  be  paid  as  follows:  For 
death  $1,650.00  to  $3,500.00;  for  injury  one- 
half  wages  beginning  the  eighth  day  after 
accident,  but  not  less  than  $6.00  nor  more 
than  $12.00  per  week.  For  specific  loss  in 
addition  to  the  compensation  employees 
shall  receive  as  follows:  For  the  loss  of  a 
thumb  50  per  centum  of  the  average  weekly 
wage  during  60  weeks;  for  the  loss  of  a 
first  finger,  fifty  per  centum  of  the  average 
weekly  wage  during  thirty-five  weeks;  for 
the  loss  of  a  second  finger,  fifty  per  centum 
of  the  average  weekly  wage  during  thirty 
weeks;  for  the  loss  of  a  third  finger,  fifty 
per  centum  of  the  average  weekly  wage 
during  twenty  weeks;  for  the  loss  of  a 
fourth  finger,  fifty  per  centum  of  the  aver¬ 
age  weekly  wage  during  fifteen  weeks;  the 
loss  of  the  first  phalange  of  the  thumb,  or 
of  any  finger,  shall  be  considered  to  be  equal 
to  the  loss  of  one-half  of  such  thumb,  or 
finger,  and  compensation  shall  be  one-half 
the  amounts  above  specified;  the  loss  of 
more  than  one  phalange  shall  be  considered 
as  the  loss  of  the  entire  finger  or  thumb. 
Provided,  however,  that  in  no  case  shall  the 
amount  received  for  more  than  one  finger 
exceed  the  amount  provided  in  this  sche¬ 
dule  for  the  loss  of  a  hand.  For  the  loss  of  a 
great  toe,  fifty  per  centum  of  the  average 
weekly  wage  during  thirty  weeks;  for  the 


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loss  of  one  toe  other  than  the  great  toe 
fifty  per  centum  of  the  average  weekly  wage 
during  ten  weeks  and  for  the  additional 
loss  of  one  or  more  toes  other  than  the 
great  toe  fifty  per  centum  of  the  average 
weekly  wage  during  an  additional  ten 
weeks;  the  loss  of  the  first  phalange  of  any 
toe  shall  be  considered  to  be  equal  to  the 
loss  of  one-half  of  such  toe,  and  compensa¬ 
tion  shall  be  one-half  of  the  amount  above 
specified;  the  loss  of  more  than  one 
phalange  shall  be  considered  as  the  loss  of 
the  entire  toe;  for  the  loss  of  a  hand,  fifty 
per  centum  of  the  average  weekly  wage 
during  one  hundred  and  fifty  weeks;  for  the 
loss  of  an  arm,  fifty  per  centum  of  the 
average  weekly  wage  during  two  hundred 
weeks;  for  the  loss  of  a  foot,  fifty  per 
centum  of  the  average  weekly  wage  during 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  weeks;  for  the 
loss  of  a  leg,  fifty  per  centum  of  the  aver¬ 
age  weekly  wage  during  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  weeks;  for  the  loss  of  the  sight 
of  an  eye,  fifty  per  centum  of  the  average 
weekly  wage  during  one  hundred  weeks; 
for  total  and  permanent  disability  com¬ 
pensation  of  50  per  cent  of  wages  for  a 
period  of  eight  years,  at  the  expiration  q| 
which  eight  per  cent  of  the  amount  which 
would  be  payable  as  a  death  benefit  payable 
in  monthly  installments  the  minimum  to 
be  $10.00  per  month. 

The  employer  shall  provide  necessary 
first  aid,  medical,  surgical  and  hospital  ser¬ 
vices,  also  medical,  surgical  and  hospital 
services  for  a  period  not  longer  than  eight 
weeks  not  to  exceed  the  amount  of 
$200.00.  The  employee  may  elect  to  secure 
his  own  physician,  surgeon  or  hospital  ser¬ 
vices  at  his  own  expense. 


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Employers  must  report  all  fatal  accidents 
and  nonfatal  accidents  when  the  time  lost 
is  over  seven  days,  to  the  Industrial  Board. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  126.  Act  of 
1913. 

1915  Session  laws,  p.  400.  Amendments 
to  1913  act. 

INJURIES: 

Compensation  for  causing  death  by  wrong¬ 
ful  act,  neglect  or  default  is  limited  to  ten 
thousand  ($10,000)  dollars. 

Action  must  be  brought  within  one  year 
after  the  death  of  the  person. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  70,  sec.  1. 

LEGAL  HOLIDAYS: 

The  following  days  are  declared  to  be 
legal  holidays.  The  first  day  of  January 
commonly  called  New  Year’s  Day,  the 
twenty-second  day  of  February,  the  thir¬ 
tieth  day  of  May,  the  fourth  day  of  July, 
the  twelfth  day  of  October,  commonly  called 
Columbus  day,  the  twenty-fifth  day  of 
December,  commonly  called  Christmas  day, 
the  first  Monday  in  September,  to  be  known 
as  Labor  day,  the  twelfth  day  of  February, 
and  any  day  appointed  or  recommended  by 
the  Governor  of  this  State  or  by  the  Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  United  States  as  a  day  of  fast 
or  thanksgiving,  and  in  cities  of  200,000  in¬ 
habitants  or  more  from  12  o’clock  noon  to  12 
o’clock  midnight  of  the  last  day  of  the  week, 
commonly  called  Saturday.  * 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  98,  sec.  17. 

MASONRY  PUBLIC  BUILDINGS  &  WORKS, 

State  Inspector  of: 

Creates  office  of  State  Inspector  of 
Masonry,  Public  Buildings  and  Works, 
whose  duty  it  is  to  examine  and  inspect  the 


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material  and  workmanship  of  all  buildings 
structures  and  additions  thereto,  con¬ 
structed  for  the  State,  out  of  brick  or 
stone  or  substitutes  therefor.  He  must 
also  inspect  all  plans  and  specifications  for 
public  buildings,  structures  and  additions 
thereto  that  are  to  be  constructed  for  the 
State.  He  is  allowed  two  assistants.  He 
and  his  assistants  must  be  skilled  mechan¬ 
ics  who  have  had  at  least  ten  years’  prac¬ 
tical  experience  next  prior  to  their  appoint¬ 
ment. 

1915  Session  Laws,  p.  715. 

MASON  CONTRACTORS  AND  EMPLOY- 
ING  MASONS  IN  CITIES  OF,  150,000  or 
over,  building  regulations: 

All  cities  of  the  State  having  a  popula¬ 
tion  of  150,000  or  over  shall  have  a  Board  of 
Examiners  of  mason  contractors  or  employ¬ 
ing  masons,  consisting  of  three  members 
appointed  by  the  mayor  and  approved  by 
the  city  council,  who  shall  examine  all  ap¬ 
plicants  as  to  their  qualifications,  and  if 
satisfied  of  the  competency  of  such  appli¬ 
cant,  shall  issue  a  certificate  to  him. 

Each  city  shall  by  ordinance  or  by  law, 
prescribe  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
materials,  construction,  alteration  and  in¬ 
spection  of  all  mason  work  upon  any  build¬ 
ing  in  said  city. 

Penalty  $5.00  to  $50.00,  revocation  of  li¬ 
cense. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  177. 

1915  Session  laws,  p.  430,  amendments. 

MECHANICS’  LIEN,  remedial  act: 

Any  person  who  shall  by  contract  with 
owner,  or  with  one  whom  such  owner  has 
authorized  to  contract  for  the  improvement 


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of,  shall  furnish  any  service,  labor  or  mater¬ 
ials  shall  have  a  lien  upon  the  premises. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  82,  sec.  15. 

MINERS’  EXAMINING  BOARD: 

Miners  to  obtain  cerificates  of  compe¬ 
tency  and  qualification  must  take  examina¬ 
tion  before  said  board;  fee  of  $2.00;  notices 
of  time  and  place  of  meeting  to  be  sent  out 
each  month  by  board.  The  board  is  ap¬ 
pointed  by  the  governor. 

Penalty  for  violation  $100.00  to  $500.00 
or  imprisonment  of  30  days  to  six  months. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  93,  sec.  53. 

1915  Session  laws,  p.  525,  amendments. 

MINING  INVESTIGATING  COMMISSION: 

Commission  has  power  to  subpoena  wit¬ 
nesses  and  compel  them  to  testify.  Must  re¬ 
port  to  the  governor  and  to  the  General  As¬ 
sembly  at  its  next  regular  session,  submitted 
a  proposed  provision  of  coal  mining  laws  to¬ 
gether  with  such  other  recommendations  as 
it  thinks  necessary  relating  to  coal  mining. 

1915  Session  laws,  page  80. 

MINES  AND  MINING: 

The  State  Mining  Board  which  is  com- 
.  posed  of  five  members  have  authority  to 
inquire  into  and  pass  upon  the  fitness  of 
men  seeking  appointment  as  State  Inspec¬ 
tors  of  mines,  as  hoisting  engineers  and 
mine  examiners.  The  board  shall  also  have 
such  other  powers  and  duties  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  this  act  or  any  other  act 
relating  to  coal  mining. 

It  is  unlawful  for  the  operators  of  any 
mine  to  employ  other  than  certificated  mine 
managers,  mine  examiners  or  hoisting  engi¬ 
neers.  There  are  twelve  State  mine  inspec¬ 
tors  or  one  for  each  of  the  twelve  districts 
whose  duty  it  is  to  devote  their  whole  time 


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to  the  examination  of  mines  and  make  re¬ 
ports  to  the  State  Mining  Board,  which 
reports  must  be  published  annually. 

The  act  provides  how  mines  shall  be  con¬ 
structed  and  maintained  for  the  safety  and 
health  of  'the  men  employed  therein.  Also 
specifies  how  blasting  shall  be  done  and 
fixes  a  standard  for  oils  an'd  powder  used. 

Certain  penalties  are  provided  for  viola¬ 
tions  of  various  sections  of  the  act. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  93,  sec.  1. 

MINERS  TO  BE  PAID  FOR  ALL  COAL 
'MINED: 

Provides  for  the  payment  of  coal  miners 
for  all  coal  mined  and  loaded  by  them  and 
requires  mine  inspectors  to  see  that  the  act 
is  enforced.  It  is  made  the  duty  of  the 
States’  attorneys  to  prosecute  violations. 

Penalty  $25.00  to  $200.00. 

OCCUPATIONAL  iDISEASES: 

Every  employer  of  labor,  engaged  in 
carrying  on  any  work  or  process  which  may 
produce  any  illness  or  disease  peculiar  to 
the  work  or  process  carried  on,  or  which 
subjects  the  employees  to  the  danger  of  ill¬ 
ness  or  disease  incident  to  such  work  or 
process  to  which  employees  are  not  ordi¬ 
narily  exposed  in  other  lines  of  employment, 
shall  for  the  protection  of  all  employees 
engaged  in  such  work  or  process,  adopt 
and  provide  reasonable  and  approved 
devices,  means  or  methods  for  the  preven¬ 
tion  of  such  industrial  or  occupational  dis¬ 
eases.  It  is  the  duty  of  the  State  Department 
of  Factory  Inspection  to  enforce  the  law. 

Penalty  $10.00  •  to  $100.00  for  the  first 
violation;  for  the  second  and  subsequent 
violations  $50.00  to  $200.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  153. 


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PLUMBERS,  license  of: 

Provides  for  the  licensing  of  plumbers  in 
cities  of  over  five  thousand  (5,000)  inhabi¬ 
tants  for  the  supervision  and  inspection  of 
plumbing  placed  in,  or  in  connection  with 
any  building  in  said  city,  town  or  village. 

Penalty  $5.00  to  $50.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  24,  sec.  498. 

POWDER  USED  IN  COAL  MINES: 

Black  powder  used  for  blasting  in  coal 
mines  shall  conform  to  certain  specifica¬ 
tions. 

Penalty  not  to  exceed  $100.00  or  90  days 
imprisonment  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  93,  sec.  79. 

PRIVATE  EMPLOYMENT  AGENCIES: 

Every  person  that  operates  or  maintains 
an  employment  agency  in  this  State  must 
procure  a  license  from  the  State  Board  of 
Commissioners  of  Labor.  The  annual  fee 
is  fifty  ($50.00)  dollars  for  cities  having  a 
population  of  fifty  thousand  or  over  and 
twenty-five  ($25.00)  dollars  for  cities  con¬ 
taining  less  than  fifty  thousand  population. 

Any  person  or  persons  opening  or  con¬ 
ducting  private  employment  agency  must 
furnish  a  bond  of  five  hundred  ($500.00) 
dollars.  ■  A  fee  of  not  more  than  two  ($2.00) 
dollars  may  be  charged  each  applicant.  En¬ 
forcement  of  the  law  is  entrusted  to  the 
State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor  and 
the  Chief  Inspector  of  Private  Employment 
agencies. 

Penalty  not  to  exceed  $200.00  or  imprison¬ 
ment  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  67a. 


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RAILROADS,  inspection  of  safety  appli¬ 
ances: 

Provides  for  the  inspection  of  equipment 
and  operation  of  safety  appliances  on  rail¬ 
roads  engaged  in  the  transportation  of  pas¬ 
sengers  and  freight  between  points  in  the 
State.  This  inspection  shall  be  made  by 
three  persons  appointed  by  the  Public  Utili¬ 
ties  Commission  who  shall  serve  for  two 
years  unless  sooner  removed. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  114,  sec.  219. 

RAILROADS,  to  provide  first  medical  aid: 

All  railroads  operating  trains  in  Illinois 
shall  provide  first  medical  aid  to  any  person 
who  may  be  injured  in  the  course  of  the 
operation  of  such  train  or  trains.  The  act 
specifies  what  first  aid  medical-equipment 
trains  shall  carry. 

Penalty  for  violation  $5.00  to  $25.00  and 
each  day’s  violation  shall  constitute  a  sepa¬ 
rate  offense. 

1915  Session  laws,  p.  559. 

RAILROADS,  safety  appliances: 

To  promote  the  safety  of  employees  and 
travelers  upon  railroads.  Common  carriers 
engaged  in  moving  traffic  by  railroads  be¬ 
tween  points  in  the  State  are  compelled  to 
equip  their  cars  with  automatic  couplers 
and  continuous  brakes  and  their  locomo¬ 
tives  with  driving-wheel  brakes. 

Penalty  $100.00  for  every  violation. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  114,  sec.  223. 

SHOT  FIRERS,  in  coal  mines: 

Providing  that  operators  of  mines  shall 
furnish  at  their  expense,  shot  firers  in  mines 
where  coal  is  blasted  and  where  more  than 
two  pounds  of  powder  is  used  for  one  blast; 


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also,  in  all  coal  mines  where  gas  is  gener¬ 
ated  in  dangerous  quantities. 

Penalty  $100.00  to  $200.00  or  imprison¬ 
ment,  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap*  93,  sec.  44. 

STRUCTURAL  ENGINEERS,  STATE 
BOARD  OF  EXAMINERS  OF: 

Creates  State  Board  of  Examiners  of 
Structural  Engineers  composed  of  five  mem¬ 
bers,  one  to  be  a  professor  in  the  Civil 
Engineering  Department  of  the  University 
of  Illinois,  the  others  shall  be  structural 
engineers  who  have  had  not  less  than  ten 
years’  practical  experience  and  who  are  prac¬ 
ticing  as  structural  engineers  in  the  State, 
to  hold  examinations  of  applicants  for 
license  to  practice  structural  engineering  in 
the  State.  Each  applicant  shall  pay  to  the 
secretary  of  the  board  a  fee  of  $20.00  and 
must  be  twenty-one  years  of  age  or  over. 
No  corporation  shall  be  licensed  to  practice 
structural  engineering. 

1915  Session  laws,  p.  432. 

TRADE-MARKS,  labels  and  forms  of  adver¬ 
tising: 

It  is  unlawful  to  counterfeit  or  initiate  any 
trade-mark,  design,  label,  devise  or  form  of 
advertising. 

Penalty  $100.00  to  $200.00  or  imprison¬ 
ment  from  three  months  to  one  year  or 
either  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  140,  sec.  1. 

WAGES,  assignment  for  benefit  of  creditors: 

Wages  of  laborers  or  servants  are  pre¬ 
ferred  claims  and  must  be  first  paid  to  the 
exclusion  of  all  other  creditors. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  10b,  sec.  6. 


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WAGES,  attorney’s  fees  in  suits: 

In  all  suits  to  recover  wages  courts  shall 
include  attorney’s  fees  in  all  judgments 
against  defendants. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  14,  sec.  13. 

WAGES,  employees  protected  in  claims: 

Any  business  going  into  the  hands  of  a 
receiver  or  trustee  owing  laborers  or  ser¬ 
vants  for  their  labor  or  employment,  shall 
pay  the  said  laborers  or  employees  in  full, 
and  if  there  be  not  sufficient  to  pay  them 
in  full  the  same  shall  be  paid  from  the 
proceeds  of  the  sale  of  the  property  seized. 
Claims  for  wages  may  be  contested  when 
reduced  to  judgment. 

Claims  for  wages  shall  he  filed  with  the 
officer,  person  or  court  charged  with  such 
property  within  10  days  after  the  seizure 
thereof,  or  within  30  days  after  the  same 
may  have  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  any 
receiver  or  trustee.  If  the  funds  realized  on 
the  property  seized  be  insufficient  to  pay 
the  total  claims  presented,  then  such  funds 
shall  be  prorated  on  such  claims. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  38a,  sec.  1. 

WAGES,  enforcement  of  payment: 

Corporations  must  pay  its  laborers,  ser¬ 
vants  or  employees  in  full  on  pay  day,  ex¬ 
cept  where  contracts  are  made  concerning 
the  payment  of  wages  to  employees. 

Any  corporation  doing  business  in  this 
State  which  violates  this  law  is  liable  to  a 
fine  of  $200.00  for  each  offense.  It  is  the 
duty  of  the  State’s  attorney  to  prosecute 
all  violations. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  16. 


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WAGES,  judgments  for,  to  include  services 
of  horse  or  team: 

In  all  sections  brought  to  recover  wages 
due  any  laborer  or  servant,  when  it  shall 
appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  court  or 
jury  that  it  was  necessary  in  the  perform¬ 
ance  of  said  labor  that  the  laborer  or  ser¬ 
vant  use  his  horse  or  team,  then  said  ser¬ 
vices  shall  be  included  in  said  wages  and 
become  a  part  of  the  judgment  for  said 
wages,  and  from  such  judgment  nothing 
shall  be  exempt. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  52,  sec.  19. 

WAGES,  of  miners  and  laborers  at  coal 
mines,  lien  on  all  property: 

Every  laborer  or  coal  miner  shall  have 
a  lien  on  all  mine  property  for  labor  per¬ 
formed,  for  the  value  of  such  labor,  upon 
the  same  terms  as  mechanic’s  liens  are  se¬ 
cured  and  enforced. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.  chap.  94,  sec.  83. 

WAGES,  payments  to  be  made  in  bankable 
currency: 

Any  time  check  or  store  order,  issued  or 
given  as  compensation  for  labor  performed, 
shall  be  redeemable,  at  the  option  of  the 
person  to  whom  the  same  was  issued  or 
given  or  upon  his  written  order,  in  bankable 
currency.  Any  person  violating  this  act 
shall  be  fined  $100.00  or  30  days  imprison¬ 
ment  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  98,  sec.  18. 

WAGES,  personal  property  not  exempt  for 
wages  of  servant: 

No  personal  property  shall  be  exempted 
from  levy,  attachment  or  execution  when 


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the  debt  or  judgment  is  for  wages  of  any 
laborer  or  servant. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  52,  sec.  16. 

WAGE  LOAN  CORPORATIONS,  incorpor¬ 
ated  : 

Corporations  may  be  organized  for  the 
purpose  of  loaning  money  on  assignment  of 
wages,  the  amount  loaned  to  any  one  per¬ 
son  not  to  exceed  $250.00. 

Such  corporation  may  loan  money  and 
take  and  hold  as  security  for  the  payment 
of  the  same  an  assignment  of  the  wages  of 
the  borrower,  and  may  charge  and  collect 
not  to  exceed  three  per  cent  per  month  as 
interest  or  compensation  for  the  use  of 
such  money. 

Penalty  not  to  exceed  $100.00  or  imprison¬ 
ment  or  both. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  33,  sec.  218. 

WAGES  AND  SALARIES  to  be  paid  semi¬ 
monthly  by  corporations  for  pecuniary 
profit : 

Every  corporation  for  pecuniary  profit  en¬ 
gaged  in  any  enterprise  or  business,  shall  as 
often  as  semimonthly  pay  to  every  em¬ 
ployee  engaged  in  its  business  all  wages  or 
salaries  earned  by  such  employee  to  a  day 
not  more  than  eighteen  (18)  days  prior  to 
the  date  of  such  payment.  No  corporation 
shall  by  special  clontract  with  employees  or 
by  any  other  means  secure  exemption. 
Penalty  $25.00  to  $100.00. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  15a. 

WASH  ROOMS  in  certain  employments: 

All  coal  mines,  steel  mills,  foundries, 
machine  shops  and  other  like  businesses 
in  which  employees  become  covered  with 


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grease,  smoke,  dust,  grime  or  perspiration 
shall  provide  and  maintain  suitable  and 
sanitary  wash  rooms  for  the  use  of  such 
employees.  It  is  the  duty  of  county  mine 
inspectors  and  factory  inspectors  to  see  that 
this  law  is  complied  with. 

Penalty  not  to  exceed  $100.00  per  day. 

Hurd’s  Rev.  St.,  chap.  48,  sec.  184. 


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